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Covid-19: the High Authority for Health authorizes antigenic tests and self-tests for children

2021-04-28T13:50:48.065Z


Until now, these tests were reserved for over 15s. They are now "relevant for breaking the chains of contamination, especially in schools".


The High Authority for Health (HAS) authorized on Monday April 26 antigenic tests and self-tests, with rapid results, for children under 15, which would significantly increase the ease and capacity of Covid-19 screening, particularly in schools.

These "

antigenic tests on a nasal sample have the advantage of combining rapidity of results and possible repeated use in a larger public

", underlines in a press release the HAS.

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  • Covid-19: instructions for use of self-tests

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Until now, these tests were reserved for over 15s.

But "

in the light of recent modeling work

", the authority concluded "

that these tests can be a screening tool for children under 15

" and that they are "

relevant for breaking the chains of contamination, in particular in school environment

”.

Their main advantages: a result in 15 to 30 minutes (these tests should not be sent to a laboratory) and they are less invasive than nasopharyngeal swabs because the swab is inserted less deeply into the nose.

For adults and children

As nasal antigen tests can be used in adults and in children, "

the HAS considers that a wider use of their self-test form is of interest in schools

". It recommends that these tests be "

carried out at least once a week according to the sampling methods most suited to the age, the capacities of the child and the local context

".

Thus, students, high school and college students can carry out the self-test independently (after a first realization under the supervision of a competent adult if necessary). For pupils in primary school, the initially supervised self-sampling is also possible, but it is preferable that the test be done by parents or trained staff. For children in nursery school, the sampling and the test must be carried out by these same actors,

”adds the HAS.

As for the rapid saliva tests (that is to say the saliva self-tests, not to be confused with the saliva tests whose results are analyzed in the laboratory), the authority repeats that the available data, "

very heterogeneous, do not allow this stage to show

"that they"

have sufficient efficacy to be able to be recommended

".

Source: lefigaro

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